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A compilation of quotations on a variety of issues by national, state and regional writers, well-known personalities, just plain everyday people and from various publications collected by the editors of THE ADVANCE.

Quotes for our Times:

Paul O’Brien, writer for American Thinker: Not in our stars, but in ourselves.

The diminution of our freedom did not happen overnight, or even just over the last 12 months. It has diminished, slowly and surely, over the last century. It could be that our thirst for freedom waned while we, collectively and voluntarily, surrendered a bit of it at a time for crumbs of what we were assured would be security. Sophisticated jailers knew it would be so.

Leah Barkoukis, online features editor at Townhall.com: Biden's dog has second biting incident in a month.

According to the White House, the rescue dog “nipped someone while on a walk” Monday, said Michael LaRosa, first lady Jill Biden’s press secretary, who added that the dog “is still adjusting to his new surroundings.”

The White House Medical Unit saw the person “out of an abundance of caution” but they were able to return to work with no injuries, he said. …

The president claimed “85 percent of the people there love him” and challenged the notion that Major was sent away earlier this month because of the incident.

“He was going home,” Biden said. “I didn’t banish him to home. Jill was going to be away for four days. I was going to be away for two, so we took him home.”

Larry O'Connor, radio talk show host and political commentator: Teachers' unions fully out of control.

If these unions don't represent the teachers, it is incumbent on the teachers to do what the parents are doing with their school boards. Make noise, be heard and make a change. Teachers can no longer enjoy the protection of silence when such disastrous actions have been made in their name.

It's time to get involved and take your union back from the radical, destructive forces now ruining the good names of the hard-working, dedicated teachers who truly do want to be in the classrooms teaching our children.

I only hope things haven't gone so far this year that there's no possible recovery.

Terence P. Jeffrey, editor-in-chief of CNSNews: The cage Biden wants for American children.

The post-COVID-19 vision of this Biden administration bureaucrat: Children will go to school this summer, this fall, next winter, next spring and next summer — and that will set the model for the future of America's government schools.

They will be in a cage from which no child may escape.

Then there is the question of the age at which a child should be put in this cage.

In his campaign pronouncements, Biden repeatedly vowed to take 3-yearold children out of their homes and put them in school.